William G. Boykin

News about William G. Boykin, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jan. 31, 2012

Plans for a talk at West Point by Lt Gen William G Boykin, a retired general known for his harshly anti-Muslim remarks, are abruptly canceled after a growing list of liberal veterans’ groups, civil liberties advocates and Muslim organizations call on the United States Military Academy to rescind the invitation. MORE

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The Army has taken action against Lt. Gen. William Boykin, who embarrassed the Bush administration by giving speeches in which he described the fight against terrorism as a Christian battle against Satan. The Army's vice chief of staff, Gen. Richard...

October 27, 2004, Wednesday

To the Editor: While Lt. Gen. William Boykin, the deputy secretary of defense for intelligence, should be removed from his current assignment, the justification for removal should not and cannot be his deeply held religious beliefs.

August 30, 2004, Monday

To the Editor: ''Holding the Pentagon Accountable: For Religious Bigotry'' (editorial, Aug. 26) reinforces what so many American Muslims felt when Donald H. Rumsfeld praised Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin after his bigoted remarks came to light.

August 30, 2004, Monday

The first reports sounded like an over-the-top satire of the Bush Pentagon: the deputy secretary of defense for intelligence -- the ranking general charged with the hunt for Osama bin Laden -- was parading in uniform to Christian pulpits, preaching...

A Pentagon investigation has concluded that a senior intelligence officer violated regulations by failing to make it clear that he was not acting in an official capacity when, in speaking at churches, he cast the war on terrorism in religious terms,...

President Bush said Tuesday that he saw no need for additional American troops in Iraq despite a lethal series of bomb and rocket attacks in Baghdad over the past three days, but he vowed that the United States ''will stay the course'' until...